Exodus 3:16

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“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.”

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BSBPD

“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:”

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“Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Go, and thou hast gathered the elders of Israel, and hast said unto them: Jehovah, God of your fathers, hath appeareth unto me, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I have certainly inspected you, and that which is done to you in Egypt;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 3:16 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 1:7So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
  2. Genesis 21:1Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
  3. Genesis 50:24Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
  4. Exodus 1:8Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
  5. Exodus 2:25God saw the Israelites and took notice.
  6. Exodus 3:2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
  7. Exodus 4:5“This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
  8. Exodus 4:29Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,
  9. Exodus 4:31and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
  10. Exodus 13:19Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”
  11. Exodus 15:14The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
  12. Exodus 18:12Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.
  13. Exodus 24:11But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
  14. Ruth 1:6When Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
  15. Psalms 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
  16. Psalms 102:21that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem,
  17. Matthew 26:3At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
  18. Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
  19. Luke 19:44They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
  20. Acts 11:30This they did, sending their gifts to the elders with Barnabas and Saul.
  21. Acts 15:14Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
  22. Acts 20:17From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
  23. Hebrews 2:6But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
  24. 1 Peter 2:12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

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